Search for: "California Department of Correction at San Quentin State Prison"
Results 81 - 97
of 97
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
31 Oct 2007, 8:48 am
Superior Court Judge Lynn O'Malley Taylor agreed with lawyers for two condemned prisoners that the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was enacting a regulation when it announced new procedures in May for lethal injections at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 10:34 pm
"We've seen the tent ruling, and we'll wait to see what the final ruling is before we draw any conclusions," said Morales' lead attorney, David Senior.Senior filed the suit in Marin County, where San Quentin State Prison and the state's lethal injection chamber are located, arguing that under California law, the state has to publish any regulation changes and offer the public a chance to ask for a… [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 8:08 pm
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff WriterWednesday, October 31, 2007California's new procedures for lethal injections are invalid because they were never submitted to the public for comment or reviewed by the office that approves all state regulations, a Marin County judge said Tuesday in a tentative ruling that could prolong the state's moratorium on executions.Superior Court Judge Lynn O'Malley Taylor agreed with lawyers for two condemned prisoners that the… [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 9:06 am
The state is trying to develop a new protocol, in part by building a death chamber to replace the one at San Quentin State Prison, which Fogel found was poorly lighted and designed as well as overcrowded. [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 10:40 pm
The judge also scheduled a formal visit Nov. 19 to a new death chamber under construction by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.Executions were halted in February 2006 in response to condemned inmate Michael Morales' legal challenge to the state's lethal injection procedures. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 6:35 am
Both men, however, are award-winning prison writers andoutspoken critics of San Quentin and the prison industrial complex ingeneral. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 9:25 pm
However, as this AP story documents, death row suicides in California have reached a notable modern milestone:The latest death at San Quentin Prison marked a gruesome landmark that underscored just how jammed up the state's capital punishment system has become: Suicides have now supplanted executions as the second leading cause of death on California's death row. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 1:05 am
San Quentin prison staffers said they found Reynolds hanging from his bunk just after 8:30 p.m. [read post]
18 May 2007, 7:04 pm
* Judge Allows Autopsy on Executed InmateThat debate reached a crescendo last December when a Florida inmate's botched execution led to what witnesses described as an excruciating, slow death and a subsequent moratorium in that state on executions.California's existing lethal injection facility at San Quentin prison -- a cylindrical windowed room -- was built as a gas chamber in 1937, Seth Unger, a state Department of… [read post]
15 May 2007, 3:42 pm
Erickson wrote to the San Francisco Superior Court last week from San Quentin State Prison, asking that the court clear up the record. [read post]
14 May 2007, 9:18 pm
CA DOC chief apologizes re death chamber secrecy Article Link : [www.marinij.com] Article : Prisons chief apologizes for death chamber debacle Edwin Garcia Article Launched: 05/09/2007 12:17:26 AM PDT SACRAMENTO - A contrite James Tilton, head of the California prison system, apologized Tuesday for lawmakers being kept in the dark about construction of a new death chamber at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
13 May 2007, 12:45 am
"Corrections officials came back with a plan to convert part of a visitingroom at San Quentin into a new death chamber. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 9:31 pm
Arnold Schwarzenegger today halted construction of a new death chamber at San Quentin prison, the latest setback for authorities trying to resume executions after a 15-month hiatus triggered by a challenge to the state's procedures for lethal injections. [read post]
14 Apr 2007, 10:00 am
San Quentin prison houses 600 death row inmates, more than any other prison in the country. [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 12:55 pm
"Seth Unger, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said there was no attempt to hide the project. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 2:31 pm
In addition, the brief asserts that the execution team at San Quentin State Prison is "unlicensed, untrained, unprofessional and incompetent" to carry out its duties. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 4:18 am
In addition, the brief asserts that the execution team at San Quentin State Prison is "unlicensed, untrained, unprofessional and incompetent" to carry out its duties.... [read post]
